2024-2025 Season

HSO 2024-25 Season

2024-25 Season

Jed Gaylin headshot

Bold strokes! Each program in our season contains rhythmic drive, powerful melodies, and soloists that come with dramatic individuality. As we journey through repertoire from beloved classics, like Beethoven's 7th Symphony, to new works, like the raga-inspired Rhapsody in राग जोग (Raag Jog), I believe you will leave each performance transformed.

—Jed Gaylin, Music Director Tickets go on sale August 1, 2024
Nov
10
Sun
Hopkins Concert Orchestra – Fall Concert @ Bunting-Meyerhoff Interfaith Center
Nov 10 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Hopkins Concert Orchestra - Fall Concert @ Bunting-Meyerhoff Interfaith Center

NOV 10, 2024 | 3:00PM | BUNTING-MEYERHOFF INTERFAITH CENTER

HCO Fall Concert
Michael Djabarov, conductor

Hopkins Concert Orchestra opens their season with Villa-Lobos’ Suite for Strings and Danzas de Panama by American composer William Grant Still.

HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS: Suite for Strings
WILLIAM GRANT STILL: Danzas de Panama

Tickets are free and open to the public, registration required

Dec
7
Sat
HSO—Winter Fest @ Shriver Hall
Dec 7 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Winter Fest

Sat, Dec 7, 2024 | 7:30PM | Shriver Hall

Jed Gaylin, Music Director

*Tickets go on-sale August 1, 2024

This December, get into the holiday spirit with HSO as we perform a selection of seasonal pieces, culminating with Poulenc’s Gloria, featuring the JHU Choral Society, Baltimore School for the Arts Choir, and soprano Lori Hultgren. With a pop-up holiday market in the lobby before the concert, you’re sure to get a dose of winter magic.

RUSSEL STEINBERG: Light’s On!—A Hanukkah Celebration

ADOLPHUS HAILSTORK: Three Spirituals

EDWARD ELGAR: Cello Concerto, movement 1—Vea Freeman, cello (HSO Concerto Competition Winner)

WILLIAM WALTON: Wise Virgins

FRANCIS POULENC: Gloria—Lori Hultgren, soprano; JHU Choral Society & BSA Choir; Mark Hardy, director

Lori Hultgren headshot Vea Freeman headshot

Lori Hultgren, soprano Vea Freeman, cello

Feb
16
Sun
Hopkins Concert Orchestra – Spring Concert @ Bunting-Meyerhoff Interfaith Center
Feb 16 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Hopkins Concert Orchestra - Spring Concert @ Bunting-Meyerhoff Interfaith Center

FEB 16, 2025 | 3:00PM | BUNTING-MEYERHOFF INTERFAITH CENTER

HCO Spring Concert
Michael Djabarov, conductor
Hyunwoo Roh, clarinet

Hopkins Concert Orchestra wraps up their season with works by Mahler, Nielsen, and a performance of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto featuring HSO Concerto Competition runner-up Hyunwoo Roh.

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART: Clarinet Concerto in A Major, mvt III—Hyunwoo Roh, clarinet*
GUSTAV MAHLER: Adagietto
CARL NIELSEN: Little Suite

*HSO Concerto Competition runner-up

Mar
1
Sat
HSO—Rhapsodies & Beethoven @ Shriver Hall
Mar 1 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm

Rhapsodies & Beethoven

Sat, March 1, 2025 | 7:30PM | Shriver Hall

Jed Gaylin, Music Director

*Tickets go on-sale August 1, 2024

Rhapsody and rhythm are the musical forces behind this multi-faceted program. HSO will give its debut performance of Drew Zaremba’s Rhapsody in Raag in Jog, which combines traditional Indian music motifs, jazz, and classical sounds. Bansuri flute, tabla, saxophone, and Kathak dancing will bring these expressions to life in a work that opens with mystery and closes with incisiveness. Enesco’s haunting Romanian Rhapsody invokes an other-worldly sensibility, and the evening will conclude with a performance of Beethoven’s ecstatic 7th symphony.

GEORGES ENESCU: Romanian Rhapsody No. 2

DREW ZAREMBA: Rhapsody in राग जोग (Raag Jog)—Anjan Shah, Bansuri flute, tenor saxophone; Nabin Shrestha, tabla ; Jonathan Epley, guitar; Amy Shook, bass; Sarah Morelli, Kathak artist

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 7

Photo of Rhapsody in Raag performance

Rhapsody in Raag performance

Mar
2
Sun
HSO—31st Annual Family Concert @ Shriver Hall
Mar 2 @ 3:00 pm – 3:45 pm
HSO—31st Annual Family Concert @ Shriver Hall

31st Annual Free Family Concert

Sun, Mar 2, 2025 | 3:00PM | Shriver Hall

Jed Gaylin, Music Director

*Tickets go on-sale August 1, 2024

 

Hopkins Symphony Orchestra presents their 31st Annual Free Family Concert! Join us at the beautiful Shriver Hall for a 45-minute orchestral program that is kid-friendly! Tickets are free, registration is required.

 

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 7

Apr
19
Sat
HSO—Marina Piccinini & Stefan Jackiw @ Shriver Hall
Apr 19 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm

Marina Piccinini & Stefan Jackiw

Sat, April 19, 2025 | 7:30PM | Shriver Hall

Jed Gaylin, Music Director

*Tickets go on-sale August 1, 2024

To close out our 2024-25 season, HSO will feature not one, but two world-class soloists. Sibelius’ Finlandia will open the program, followed by a performance from the illustrious Stefan Jackiw, who will grace our stage with Berg’s haunting Violin Concerto. Internationally-acclaimed performer Marina Piccinini will dazzle on Nielsen’s Flute Concerto. This Danish work miraculously combines abandon with a clean-lined Scandinavian tilt and will be followed by a delightful duet with flutist Giorgio Consolati. Audiences will not want to miss this star-studded event.

JEAN SIBELIUS: Finlandia

ALBAN BERG: Violin Concerto—Stefan Jackiw, violin

CARL NIELSEN: Flute Concerto—Marina Piccinini, flute

FRANZ & KARL DOPPLER: Fantasy on “Rigoletto”—Marina Piccinini and Giorgio Consolati, flute

Marina Piccinini headshot Stefan Jackiw headshot

Marina Piccinini, flute Stefan Jackiw, violin